Featherston Booktown Trust

Denver Grenell

Kia ora booklovers. We hope you are all keeping snug and warm in these cold months and have a pile of good books to keep you company.

This month we are travelling up the road to Greytown for an event as part of the Greytown Festival of Christmas 2023 to welcome back a previous Featherston Booktown festival guest. Following her popular appearance at Featherston Booktown in 2021, Helen Lehndorf returns to the South Wairarapa to discuss her new book, a Forager’s Life, in conversation with Featherston Booktown’s operations manager and keen forager, Mary Biggs.

Not all that long ago, a foraging life in nature was how everyone put food on their table. Now, as the connection between what we eat and how we feel grows more and more obvious, there’s renewed interest in locally grown and natural foods. Part memoir, part guidebook, and with a sprinkling of recipes, a Forager’s Life teaches us that foraging isn’t an activity reserved for long weekend retreats and Instagram influencers. Through spaces both urban and wild, Helen weaves an intimate story of the immutable connection between nature, our own mental health, and the wellbeing of our family and whanau.

A Forager’s Life: Helen Lehndorf in conversation with Mary Biggs takes place on Tuesday 25 July 2023, 6:00pm–7:00pm at Greytown Town Hall, 89 Main St, Greytown in association with Mrs Blackwell’s Village Bookshop. Tickets are $21.50 each and available from Eventfinda.